Joint Commission Center Focuses on Patient Care
The Joint Commission has teamed up with top hospitals and health systems across the country to create a center to find new methods to stop breakdowns in patient care.
The first initiative from the Center for Transforming Healthcare focuses on hand washing failures that contribute to health care-associated infections.
Eight leading hospitals and health systems from California to New Jersey volunteered to address hand washing failures as a critical patient safety problem. Targeted solutions now being tested at the center include using a reliable method to measure performance, and tailor education in proper hand hygiene for specific disciplines.
Future patient safety initiatives will focus on breakdowns in hand-off communication, which is a transfer and acceptance of patient care responsibilities, and improving other aspects of infection control.
For more information on the new center, click here.